Word: convey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting of Branch 43 National Association of Postal Supervisors, held Thursday evening, July 12, 1945, at the Hotel Statler, Boston, Massachusetts, it was voted to convey to you an expression of our deep appreciation of your editorial and news-column support of our Salary Re-Classification-Bill, H. R. 3035, recently enacted into...
Unfortunately, the buildups are sometimes too good. The film might be more successful as comedy if it were less painstakingly skillful in creating moments of suspense. As it is, the production is too tricky to be effective either as farce or melodrama; its sudden changes of mood often convey a feeling that the picture is kidding not itself but the audience...
Your simple account of how his death touched the armed forces, the man in the street, the great and near-great, near & far, and your eloquent tribute to him and to his brave wife, said completely what I have sought to convey to my children. It will be reverently put in their diary as the "requiem" in his memory...
...Miss Barrymore was, to keep every hint of boy-meets-girl out of the teacher's moving relationship with the uncouth young miner who is her star pupil. Newcomer John Dall, as the miner, cares a lot for his role, but he is too urban and smooth to convey much power through it, once he gets the coal dust off his face. Another newcomer, Joan Lorring, as a hysterical little cockney slut who gets herself and the young man in trouble, mixes talent and overemphasis in about equal parts. Hit of the show: Rosalind Ivan, having herself a high...
Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), whose designs are both whirling and geometrical, hated the thought of painting "dogs, vases, naked women." To him "a circle is a living wonder" and a blob of color is enough to convey a mood (blue, "the typical heavenly color," stands for rest; blue-black for grief; violet, the echo of grief; green is "the bourgeoisie -self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...